Please enable JS and disable any ad blocker Important archaeological discovery in Switzerland: a prehistoricBronze Age necropolis (dated approximately 2000 B.C.) has been discovered in the Canton of Valais specifically in the municipal area of Savièse The necropolis was found as a result of some surveys carried out by the Cantonal Archaeological Office Other findings from the Early Bronze Age had already been reported in the territory of Canton Valais; this is the first time a necropolis can be studied testifying to the importance of this find.Specifically which are burials in a folded position inside small boxes made of stone slabs This discovery resulted in the organization of an additional three-week excavation that will be completed in mid-August The excavations revealed the presence of at least eighteen graves and furnishings (a bronze diadem) found in the first excavated tomb allow the necropolis to be attributed to the early Bronze Age Such burial sites are already well known in Canton Valais but they all date back to the Neolithic period With the discovery of the Savièse necropolis this is the first time that such an Early Bronze Age assemblage can be analyzed The study of this site shows that the tradition of cist burial lasted until the beginning of the 2nd millennium B.C. before burial in a lying position on the back became established throughout the region The first traces of the settlement of a community in the Savièse area were found at the Château de la Soie and date back to 4800 BC This human presence in this area seems to continue as archaeological evidence dates back to the construction of the fortified site Some archaeological sites have also been found in Chandolin and they testify to settlement in the municipal area during the Bronze Age and Iron Age periods Municipal history and natural resources are brought together in the new book Savièse With lots of glass for contrast and light the texture of the raw concrete adds a rough stone-like beauty to the building’s clean geometric lines For this project in the southwest Switzerland town of Savièse slightly sloped suburban lot surrounded by other abodes they envisioned an almost fortress-like outer wall surrounding three interior courtyards These open spaces as well as a full glass wall on the south face of the building let in ample light and views of the mountains the home has its entrance at street-level with three successive “half levels” delineating the entrance The surprising abundance of interior glass provides a light contrast to the heaviness of the primary concrete walls The architects considered the home’s roof to be a “fifth facade” and covered it with gravel to match all the concrete Via: World Architecture This document may not be reprinted without the express written permission of Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Material from the Associated Press is Copyright © 2025 audio and/or video material shall not be published rewritten for broadcast or publication or redistributed directly or indirectly in any medium Neither these AP materials nor any portion thereof may be stored in a computer except for personal and noncommercial use The AP will not be held liable for any delays errors or omissions therefrom or in the transmission or delivery of all or any part thereof or for any damages arising from any of the foregoing who went missing in 1942 and whose frozen bodies were found earlier this month were buried on Saturday (22 July) following a ceremony attended by family in southwestern Switzerland two of who are still alive and were present at the funeral service in Saviese The couple's great-grandchildren also attended the ceremony earlier told Lausanne daily Le Matin that she and her siblings "spent our whole lives looking for them" They had gone to milk their cows in a meadow above Chandolin in the Valais canton on 15 August 1942 and never returned "Three-quarters of a century later the family can at last stop asking the question: 'What happened to them?'" a priest was quoted by Switzerland's The Local as saying during the service Valais cantonal police had discovered the two bodies earlier this month on Tsanfleuron glacier above Les Diablerets resort at an altitude of 2,615m (8,600 ft). "The bodies were lying near each other. It was a man and a woman wearing clothing dating from the period of world war two," Bernhard Tschannen, the director of Glacier 3000, had told Lausanne daily Le Matin when the bodies were discovered. "They were perfectly preserved in the glacier and their belongings were intact." Over the past several years, the shifting and shrinking of ice has yielded the bodies of people missing for decades. "Given the current shrinking of glaciers, we have to expect more and more such findings," Bettina Schrag, cantonal head of forensic medicine, told Swiss public radio RTS, Reuters reported. In a similar case, the remains of two Japanese climbers who had gone missing in 1970 on the Alps' Matterhorn Mountain in 1970 were found on a glacier in September 2016. "The ice can be both this great tool of preservation, but it can also do funny things to pull apart and warp large objects", Dr Twila Moon, a research scientist at the National Snow and Ice Data Center, told NBC News. In 1924, famed climber George Mallory disappeared on Mount Everest's peak. Seventy five years later, in 1999, mountaineers found his frozen body. The body was found with name tags and notes on his clothing. Mallory is believed to have reached the Everest summit nearly 30 years before Tenzing Norgay and Sir Edmund Hillary, but what happened during the expedition is a mystery. In 1952, an Air Force plane crashed into Mount Gannett in Alaska and was buried inside Colony Glacier east of Anchorage for over five decades. During the summer of 2012, the glacier melted and the wreckage of the flight that killed 52 men was discovered. Human remains emerged a year later and the bodies of at least 31 victims have reportedly been recovered. In September 1991, hikers discovered a frozen corpse in the Ötztal Alps along the Italy-Austria border. The body nicknamed Ötzi the Iceman, is said to be dated to around 3300 B.C. The body is one of the oldest and most well-preserved in existence. According to The New York Times, the glacier froze him and the high humidity in the area kept his organs and skin in good condition. Investigators and scientists concluded that he most likely died in an altercation, but he also had various health issues, including an intestinal parasite. © Copyright IBTimes 2025. All rights reserved. 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